In the last several years, a crisis of capitalist development has redefined our understanding of cities in terms of international policy making, political constituencies and individual and collective political expressions in the urban realm. Inter Unit 8 has been experimenting with possible new scenarios for this political readjustment at a global scale, departing from its most basic expressions in the city. As a result, students have constructed innovative political arguments by experimenting with the relationship between everyday material activities–such as waiting for a bus, dancing, chatting in the streets, or wheeling and dealing in the city squares–and a particular material organization. In these common everyday practices, students have found the materials from which to reconstruct the political experience in the city. Manifested in public and constructed as a physical material expression, these everyday practices acquire a political value — understanding the political as what Hannah Arendt described as action in public — and redefine new models of the interaction between the individual and the collective in the public arena.

26.2.10

Seminar - Materiality

Next Friday 27th of February there will be a seminar on materiality in open Room 3 at 3pm. see you there.

Studio Integrate
www.studiointegrate.com

Mehran Gharleghi,BArch MArch (The Architectural Association)Mehran Gharleghi received his Master of Architecture from the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme at the Architectural Association. He is an architect and researcher. He has been collaborating with prominent architects in Iran since 2002 and recently collaborated with Plasma Studio and Fosters and partners in London. He has been jury member in Diploma unit 10, intermediate unit 7&8 since 2008. He lectured at the Smart Geometry09, AA Fab Research Cluster Symposium and ACADIA 2009.

Mehran Gharleghi has been interviewed in the book entitled ‘Conversation With the Young Architect' in which he seeks the current role of young architect through a conversation with award winnig architect Nasrine Faghih. Mehran Gharleghi and Amin Sadeghy exhibited their ‘Responsive Pneumatic Systems' research at London's Design Festival 2009. Amin Sadeghy BArch MSc (The Architectural Association)Amin Sadeghy received his Master of Science from the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme at the Architectural Association. He is an architect and researcher. He has been collaborating with prominent architects in Iran since 2002 and collaborated with Fosters and Partners in London. He lectured at AA Fab Research Cluster Symposium 2009. He has been jury member in intermediate unit 8 since 2008. He lectured at the AA Fab Research Cluster Symposium. Mehran Gharleghi and Amin Sadeghy recently exhibited their ‘Responsive Pneumatic Systems' research at London's Design Festival 2009.
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Design and research work of Intermediate Unit 8 Architectural Association School of Architecture London UK